The Roadblock lyrics

News travels fast in a small desert town
So it wasn`t long at all before the word got around
That a killin` mad car was headed their way
So the sheriff and the boys were gonna stop him
Out on the highway

Right where it intersected big black rock
So it wasn`t long at all
Before the whole town was out standin` `round
Hammerin` a nail and buildin` up a pride
In a roadblock

The mayor`s wife sat in the shade
And talked her way through a few good lies
While her husband practiced his acceptance speech
For a medal from the F.B.I.

And Granny rocked back in her chair and said,
`Just what did this man do?`
While some idiot kids from school
Ate the dirty sno-cones colored red, white and blue
At the roadblock

Then the local paper jumped the gun
And printed the big headline
`Town is saved from killer car with roadblock at stateline`

Three miles down the highway in a Chevy `69
Were a pair of crazy eyeballs
Jumpin` left and right in time
To an eight track tape playin` Foghat and Jethro Tull
And a gasoline soaked hand shiftin`
A little plastic skull

And on the arm a blue tattoo that read
`I`m a son of a bitch`
A map open on the front seat
Leather black as pitch
One foot slammed on the gas, no shoe
Just an argyle sock

Andthat car was screamin` wild down the highway
Like lightnin` towards the roadblock

Then all eyes turned down the highway
To a big cloud of smoke
And Granny went into a mild state of shock and started to choke
And then a boy up in a tree yelled out, `Here he comes...`
Then twenty men strong aimed and fired point blank
Nineteen shotguns...

Well the next day the sheriff just tried to stall
While they buried the body out behind a wall
The newspaper said, `Killer still on the lam
Seems the boys at the roadblock shot the wrong man

Nobody really knew just who he was
He was drivin` a Camaro with dashboard fuzz
They all burned the car right there at big black rock
And no one ever said a word at all again
About a roadblock
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